Re: <nettime> Officials spy on calls

[Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET>]

>>>>> "em" == Erich M <erich-moechel@quintessenz.at> writes:

    em> Wiretapping one fone number around the clock needs
    em> three cops.

In the US, wiretapping is outsourced to the Israeli company Comverse
Infosys.  The overall system has a voicemail-like interface.  If your
three-shifts assumption is still valid in Australia, I doubt if it
will be for long.

see:

 http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40824,00.html
 www.politechbot.com archive, around 2001-12-14

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